Re: RATMA '01

[Cat Hebert <virtualdrama@juno.com>]

Sounds like that. I was thinking more on the order of work created for a
very specific spaces -- including all the props, etc. and maybe based /
riffing off of the lives of people living in the space. Small audience.
Documented digitally so it can be shared / used, etc. etc.

Cheers,
Cat


> Does this sound a bit like the "happening" kind of "hang out theater 
> of the
> 60s and 70s? Where the audience could come and watch people living 
> in the
> space on stage.
> 
> Am I making this up?
> 
> Dave
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cat Hebert" <virtualdrama@juno.com>
> To: <rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 11:09 AM
> Subject: RATMA '01
> 
> 
> > RATMA '01
> >
> > I just surfed into the DOGME '95 manifesto website, and, of 
> course, I
> > wondered to myself "how could this be done for theater". Not the 
> same
> > kettle of pencils, of course. Budget cuts have long forced theater 
> back
> > to basics.
> >
> > I wanted to throw this out to the group. What would DOGME '95 look 
> like
> > for the theater?
> >
> > My own take would be totally site-specific performance in which 
> the story
> > is entirely based on elements already in the space -- setting, 
> furniture,
> > props, people. No extra lighting. No costumes or makeup. No added 
> sound
> > or other media.  No genre pieces. Perhaps based on the history of 
> the
> > space itself or the people who have lived in it, but entirely 
> present. No
> > weapons. No violence.  No "raising the stakes" to keep the 
> director and
> > cast from getting bored. The audience follow the cast, or  (like 
> Charlie
> > Deemer's "hyperdramas") move into different spaces and experience
> > different scenes.
> >
> > If this sounds suspiciously similar to my recent online in home 
> theater
> > suggestion, it's because at one point a group of us started to 
> put
> > together "family-theater" performances -- essentially trouping 
> short
> > plays and scenes from classics to people's homes for the 
> afternoon. Very
> > low cost. They would invite friends and neighbors. Very pre-20th 
> Century.
> > (Very LA?) Well, what struck me as we were doing the first of 
> these
> > things was that for the most part the people and their homes were 
> more
> > interesting in many ways than the pieces we were doing *in* the 
> homes. (I
> > remember one design-oriented urban couple who had a lounge room 
> that was
> > entirely black and white -- with marble chessboard tile. 
> *Entirely* black
> > and white. Very scary.  Another place was filled with kids and 
> pets and
> > color and plants and, well, life. You could do 20 plays just using 
> the
> > family room and the toy chest.)
> >
> > So, anyway. What would your RATMA '01 be like?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Cat Hebert
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